Criminal solicitation in the fifth degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 100.00 Criminal solicitation in the fifth degree.
A person is guilty of criminal solicitation in the fifth degree when, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a crime, he solicits, requests, commands, importunes or otherwise attempts to cause such other person to engage in such conduct.
Criminal solicitation in the fifth degree is a violation.
A person commits fifth-degree criminal solicitation by intending that another person commit a crime and soliciting, requesting, commanding, urging, or otherwise trying to cause that conduct. ★ It is a violation.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.